Should we send the Lords up north? Moving the House of Lords, while leaving the House of Commons in London, doesn't make much sense

Tony Hall leaves the BBC with an uncertain future The Director-General achieved many things, but his record is not all positive

Monday

20.01

The new ‘Orthodox Conservatives’ are missing a trick A new youth pressure group has set out its core values, but there are some glaring omissions

Mary Harrington

Audio: how bad is Viktor Orban? Phillip Blond and Peter Franklin take opposing views on the virtues of the Hungarian regime

The sixteenth century roots of Gwyneth Paltrow’s candle A new book reveals how our attitude to smell was set relatively recently

Saturday

18.01

How Jesuit missionaries invented spin The cultural legacy of 16th and 17th century missionaries in Brazil and India is still with us today

Mary Harrington

Friday

17.01

In praise of hereditary politicians What if meritocracy is a bad idea and we're better off with hereditary politicians?

Anne Brontë, the forgotten sister who was ahead of her time Anne Brontë, who died 200 years ago today, was more radical than either of her sisters

No, Guy Verhofstadt, citizenship is not a Netflix subscription The latest idea from the EU is part of a wider loss of the importance place

Thursday

16.01

Leavers, not Remainers, deserted Labour in 2019 A spurious claim is being made by some in the party to deflect criticism over the second referendum pledge

The dark side of digital money The end of cash poses a potential threat to personal autonomy

There’s not going to be a Tsar Putin The Russian president's constitutional proposals have been widely misinterpreted

Wednesday

15.01

WATCH: Tributes to the Beast of Bolsover led by Conservatives Tory MP Mark Fletcher paid homage to Dennis Skinner in his maiden speech

Elites don’t preach what they practise Marriage has, paradoxically, become a status-signal and a luxury of the wealthy

WATCH: The most significant moment from last night’s Democrat Debate Billionaire Tom Steyer overtly chose to prioritise the climate over working people

Nudge off: Is the end in sight for behavioural economics? One of the most influential ideas of the 2010s is facing a backlash

Tuesday

14.01

Amazon’s predatory tactics spread to India The company's expansion threatens the livelihood of ordinary people

Mary Harrington

Maybe Lisa Nandy has a chance after all The Wigan MP has a plan to win, and it's not a bad one

The real reason why the high street is dying The future looks bleak for UK retailers

Monday

13.01

Roger Scruton’s quiet heroism The philosopher was a beacon of hope for marginalised conservatives

Why we must take up Roger Scruton’s mantle The philosopher's work belongs to the future

Imogen Sinclair

Is China turning pink? A new pro LGBT advert suggests that a more progressive China is emerging

Sunday

12.01

WATCH: Sir Roger Scruton on the importance of Beauty A programme from 2015 in which philosopher sets out to defend beauty

Saturday

11.01

A road trip into the spirit world A Cain and Abel tale of fraternal tension

Mary Harrington

Friday

10.01

Conservatives, stop kidding yourselves about ‘viewpoint diversity’ It is an underdog argument deployed by the losing side

Mary Harrington

Meghan’s liberalism ignores the importance of family Turbo-charged with celebrity, it holds out the fantasy that you can make it on your own

Is this the decade individualism dies? Older voices are turning away from 'boomer values' in favour of a more co-operative world

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

09.01

Did Twitter anti-diplomacy prevent war with Iran? Among his many skills, Trump is the master practitioner of social media

Why liberals can’t understand English pride The sense of Englishness was heightened among those who voted for Brexit

Polyamory is just a sly way to make cheating seem virtuous I can't imagine anything worse than being told its wrong to mind

Wednesday

08.01

Ursula von der London The EU President focused on the one bit of Britain that Brussels never had to worry about

WATCH: Tory MPs erupt into cheers as Margaret Thatcher is mentioned Will voters in northern ex-mining towns feel as warmly?

Can churches solve Britain’s age segregation problem? They provide one of the few opportunities for different generations to mix

Mary Harrington

Here’s a better idea for reforming Whitehall It's not about re-organising departments, it's about dedicated teams

Tuesday

07.01

Let’s hear it for the Left-wing regressives! All this talk of progress among Labour hopefuls is missing the point

What’s minimalism trying to hide? Minimalist products depend on a maximalist production chain — and that chain is exploitative and wasteful

Let’s re-do the Political Studies Association awards Here are five alternative winners for 2019...

Monday

06.01

Ricky Gervais is a fool — in all the right ways The comedian's stinging criticism of the Hollywood elite takes a stand against 'anti-comedy'

Are human rights overtaking democracy? Lord Sumption raises important questions about the mission creep of human rights

Lisa Nandy on social conservatism and Dominic Cummings The Labour leadership contender spoke to UnHerd about how communities can protect their culture

Saturday

04.01

Studying Classics shouldn’t be an elite pursuit People forget the long tradition of working class study of the Classics

Mary Harrington

Friday

03.01

Watch: Yarom Hazony in a fiery debate on nationalism The academic locks horns with columnist Bret Stephens at Princeton University

Conservatives should capture the Green movement It's time to re-discover the long-lost conservative environmentalist tradition

Thursday

02.01

Green means going local in globalised Vancouver A sign in a pile of potatoes saying 'BC first' taught me a lot...

Can patriotism be progressive? A seemingly innocuous statement has triggered a heated debate on the Left

Wednesday

01.01

Race is a bad way to target a scholarship — black or white Once you start going down the road of dividing people by their race, there's no going back

Will China end America’s culture wars? China is one thing that unites American conservatives and liberals

Tuesday

31.12

The top 5 climbers and fallers in the world of ideas From trade wars to identity politics, the 2010s was an interesting decade...

Mary Harrington

If Labour want help with patriotism, they should read Orwell

Monday

30.12

Greens need to starting talking solutions The Today programme should give a platform to someone like Michael Liebreich

The British answer to the Benedict Option The instinct to turn away from mainstream society is found far beyond American Christians

Friday

27.12

Is it immoral to let children believe in Santa? Make-believe stories exist and are sustained precisely because we believe in them

Thursday

26.12

Are the Christians turning away from Donald Trump? Upsets at two Christian publications have put the President's evangelical support in question

WATCH: 10 Christmas day messages From the Queen to Kevin Spacey, our selection of the interesting and the bizarre

Wednesday

25.12

Three myths about social conservatives Unhelpfully, social and cultural conservatives are often used interchangeably

Tuesday

24.12

Leave your echo chambers this Christmas Many of us have lost the habit of navigating political differences

Mary Harrington

Monday

23.12

The Two Popes is made in liberal Hollywood’s image The film's two main characters are a simplistic representation of two competing worldviews

Saturday

21.12

The dark side of the communitarian idyll What drives people to religious withdrawal in contemporary individualistic America?

Mary Harrington

Friday

20.12

Will Boris fight for middle-aged men? Single middle aged men are the group most likely to commit suicide — and most likely to vote Tory

Thursday

19.12

Does Dominic Cummings get survivorship bias? The advisor's recommended reading to Downing Street aides may be misguided

Don’t nuke the North, Dom Cummings should bury nuclear, not praise it, in his vision for economic renewal

Boris bans the word ‘Brexit’ An edict has gone out in government banning the B word post January 31st

Judges are on a collision course with the Church A legal ruling has exposed a battle between Britain's two value systems

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

18.12

It’s time we ‘progressives’ stopped hectoring The liberal Left's identity politics alienated much of the country

Why we need the BBC more than ever The Beeb's bias wouldn't be suddenly rectified by selling it off

Why must Labour’s next leader be a woman? As polls show, no one cares that much about gender when it comes to politics

Tuesday

17.12

Don’t cancel the Corbynites The hard Left luminaries tell us more about Labour than the moderates

Arsenal caves into China The club's behaviour fits into a broader pattern of corporate obeisance to China

WATCH: Tucker Carlson discovers Paul Embery on UnHerd Our columnist signs up a new fan on the other side of the Atlantic...

Boris Johnson has a woman problem Analysis of the vote reveals a huge gender divide in support for the PM

Polly Mackenzie

Monday

16.12

Jeremy Corbyn was too much like Tony Blair Corbyn completed the middle-class gentrification of the Labour Party that began under Blair

Labour’s problems all start at university Students cutting their ties from their home town is more of a problem for Labour than they realise

What’s the matter with Bolsover? History shows that when elites don't share the same faith as the ruled, they end up losing

Saturday

14.12

Robin Ince’s conversion to curiosity The shift from an anti-religious stance goes deeper than just branding

Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday

13.12

WATCH: five interesting moments from election night Labour's civil war has been thrown into full display

Boris Johnson’s biggest weakness became his strength The shape-shifting character of the Prime Minister was a necessary part of his victory...

Thursday

12.12

Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad It's harder to have a political argument with someone in a small town like mine

Mary Harrington

No, the rain probably won’t affect voter turnout The much-quoted idea that bad weather is good or bad for one party is likely nonsense

Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa He may be 78, but the veteran socialist has a commanding vote share of young people

Wednesday

11.12

Why it takes a village of fathers to raise a child The New York Times is wrong again about family structure and race

What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result Whichever way the result goes, the Tories haven't convinced yet

How we ruined election campaigns This is a high stakes campaign — so why is it all so boring?